Beauchamp: “I Lied”
Beauchamp Recants
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp–author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23 issue as well as two previous “Baghdad Diarist” columns–signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods–fabrications containing only “a smidgen of truth,” in the … words of our source.
Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:
An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims.
According to the military source, Beauchamp’s recantation was volunteered on the first day of the military’s investigation. So as Beauchamp was in Iraq signing an affidavit denying the truth of his stories, the New Republic was publishing a statement from him on its website on July 26, in which Beauchamp said, “I’m willing to stand by the entirety of my articles for the New Republic using my real name.”
The magazine’s editors admitted on August 2 that one of the anecdotes Beauchamp stood by in its entirety–meant to illustrate the “morally and emotionally distorting effects of war”–took place (if at all) in Kuwait, before his tour of duty in Iraq began, and not, as he had claimed, in his mess hall in Iraq. That event was the public humiliation by Beauchamp and a comrade of a woman whose face had been “melted” by an IED.
Nothing public has been heard from Beauchamp since his statement standing by his stories, which was posted on the New Republic website at 6:30 a.m. on July 26. In their August 2 statement, the New Republic’s editors complained that the military investigation was “short-circuiting” TNR’s own fact-checking efforts. “Beauchamp,” they said, “had his cell-phone and computer taken away and is currently unable to speak to even his family. His fellow soldiers no longer feel comfortable communicating with reporters. If further substantive information comes to light, TNR will, of course, share it with you.”
Now that the military investigation has concluded, the great unanswered question in the affair is this: Did Scott Thomas Beauchamp lie under oath to U.S. Army investigators, or did he lie to his editors at the New Republic? Beauchamp has recanted under oath. Does the New Republic still stand by his stories?
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Give the MSM 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 …. Scott Thomas Beauchamp: “Fake but accurate” …
August 7th, 2007 at 11:30 amdrillanwr-
so right, even when the truths they believe in are shown to be lies, they still will say that the lie is the truth
hopefully harm will come that fuckers way
an al queda combatant has more honor than him
August 7th, 2007 at 11:50 amNah give the MSM 5 seconds to just ignore this.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:56 amI expect this sort of thing from the likes of Dan Rather et. al. but from our military? He needs to be made an example of that’s it not ok to lie and disgrace his fellow soldiers.
I wish he’d get a good ol fashioned blanket part on his ass, then be completely marginalized by his fellow soldiers until he’s court martialed.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pmHow safe can this jerk feel, after what he’s attempted to do to the honor and integrity of the REAL men and women there? I hope he’s constantly pissing down his leg in fear.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:14 pmHe pulled a John Kerry on them. Fucker.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:41 pmFuck this puke. Lets talk about a real man. Meet “Hammer”:
August 7th, 2007 at 3:54 pmhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292487,00.html
His face is annoying.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pmhere is Benedicts email address:
scott.beauchamp@us.army.mil
send him your love
August 7th, 2007 at 7:13 pmThanks for the email address, sent him one.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:23 pmHe might not suck a dick but I’d bet he’d let one go soft in his mouth.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:30 pmThanks for that email. I sent the little John Kerry a nice note. (note sarcasm here).
August 8th, 2007 at 7:01 amThe little shit-weasel is probably huddled in a pool of his own waste right now. He defamed everyone is his unit. The best he can hope for is to be discharged as soon as possible. I read through as much of the nut’s blog as I could stand, and the idiot thought being a soldier would give him “street cred” as an author. But the stuff he wrote was so godawful I can’t see how anyone would pay for anything he wrote. Think Rosie’s poetry. That bad.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:31 amOh, did I forget to mention that I have a feeling the command does not send the lying little bastard out on patrols with the real soldiers for fear of what may happen to him?
10:1 he is restricted to the camp he’s on. Specifically, his hooch, the chow hall, chapel and his work place.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:05 ammaybe this was his way of getting out of doing his duty. Look at the picture: Whats with the pose? does he remind anyone of a soldier or an intellectual wannabe? I bet he takes it in the a**. Ill bet the “laughing at the girl with the deformed face” was actually his fellow soldiers laughing at him and his effeminate demeanor. Dont ask, dont tell!
August 9th, 2007 at 10:49 pm